User:BD2412/Archive 013
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OK, resolve this!Don't call names, you wayward guts-griping pigeon-egg! You have been noticed using opprobrious epithets. It's payback time from the Shakespeare Insult Generator! To activate the Insultspout and receive fresh insults, click here. Note that all insults generated by the Spout are guaranteed literary and cultured, unlike the nasty things you said, you qualling idle-headed lout. Best wishes, Bishonen | talk 22:48, 13 February 2014 (UTC).
Handling of a convoluted RM discussionThanks for closing Talk:Confederate_Arizona#Requested_move. I really like the way you consulted the early participants about the late turn in the consensus-finding process, and waited 24 hours to allow objections. --SmokeyJoe (talk) 00:24, 8 January 2014 (UTC) Drafts from AFDHi BD2412, Thanks for helping out yesterday. I had six articles - including the two I mentioned yesterday - that I found had been deleted at AFD, but all have coverage in Shannon Appelcline's Designers & Dragons. I would like to get all of them ultimately restored to article space, so I need at minimum one more good source - can you help me look for them? The ones in question are Draft:Adam Jury, Draft:Chris Seeman, Draft:Paul Hume (game designer), and Draft:S. John Ross (writer). Any help you can give there is appreciated! BOZ (talk) 13:25, 8 January 2014 (UTC)
After successful Requested Moves, Tom Braunlich and Wilf K. Backhaus are articles once more. :) I will note that, in both cases, the number of unanimous supports to restore the articles were the exact same number of votes to delete them at AFD in the first place. ;) BOZ (talk) 16:50, 15 January 2014 (UTC) Talk:Lap danceI just wanted to ask you to keep an eye on this, as it doesn't seem as if the editor in question is taking the advice he's been receiving. BMK, Grouchy Realist (talk) 20:37, 8 January 2014 (UTC)
?????? older ≠ wiser 13:49, 9 January 2014 (UTC)
ChukarHey, thanks for taking care of this. I normally make an effort to clean up the incoming links myself, but in this case it totally slipped my mind. I didn't mean to make you (or anyone else) clean up my messes, but appreciate your help. Cheers,—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); January 9, 2014; 21:45 (UTC)
James Kirk (disambiguation)I saw your edit at James Kirk (disambiguation). In the various edit guides I have seen, I have not seen any "strictly forbidden" language used, for disambiguation pages or otherwise. Could you please provide me with proof of your claim or revert your change? (cur | prev) 13:37, January 10, 2014 BD2412 (talk | contribs) . . (876 bytes) (-115) . . (external links are strictly forbidden on disambiguation pages; the link should be in the appropriate article) (undo | thank)
Meetups coming up in DC!Hey! You are invited to two upcoming events in DC:
I hope to see you there! (Note: If you do not wish to receive talk page messages for DC meetups, you are welcome to remove your username from this page.) Talk:Daniel Robbins#Requested moveHelo BD2412. An editor had swapped the art historian with the programmer, arguing that the historian was the more famous. You reverted this. Since then, User:Coldcreation opened a RM discussion but so far he is the only participant. That RM is now in the backlog ready to be closed. If I turn out to be the closer of the discussion, I'd probably make the historian be the primary meaning, based on volume of scholarly work. Also he was the director of the Fogg Museum at Harvard. Are you thinking of posting anything to the move discussion? Thanks, EdJohnston (talk) 05:28, 16 January 2014 (UTC)
IBM Rational Focal PointHi BD2412 -- not sure if this is the right way to contact you, but I have fixed the issue with the IBM Rational Focal Point page being an orphan by creating links on pages of two tools that link to it -- so far -- there are many others -- but I have created links to it on System Architect and IBM Rational Team Concert. Sorry if this is the incorrect way to get this info to you. Please delete this note if it is the wrong way. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Louv (talk • contribs) 19:00, 16 January 2014 (UTC) Devil's DueThanks for fixing the Devil's Due links. I don't make mass-edits often, but perhaps it is time to set up and use WP:AWB for these rare occasions. Appreciate it! Erik (talk | contrib) (ping me) 19:56, 17 January 2014 (UTC) Possibly unfree File:EUTooManyStars.jpgA file that you uploaded or altered, File:EUTooManyStars.jpg, has been listed at Wikipedia:Possibly unfree files because its copyright status is unclear or disputed. If the file's copyright status cannot be verified, it may be deleted. You may find more information on the file description page. You are welcome to add comments to its entry at the discussion if you object to the listing for any reason. Thank you. Cube00 (talk) 15:24, 18 January 2014 (UTC) AP SpanishI have closed the move discussion at Talk:AP Spanish. The result is to delete the existing DAB as unnecessary disambiguation. However, the language exam page has an existing talk page which can't be dispensed with, and the move discussion is itself on the talk page of the old DAB. I have kept Talk:AP Spanish Language (the old language talk page) and Talk:AP Spanish. One option is to archive Talk:AP Spanish Language by moving and let Talk:AP Spanish become the regular talk page. How does that sound? EdJohnston (talk) 17:14, 18 January 2014 (UTC)
Romani people in CroatiaBecause you commented in the earlier move discussion, I'm hoping you can also comment on Talk:Romani people in Croatia#Requested move 12 January 2014. Thanks. --Joy [shallot] (talk) 19:24, 18 January 2014 (UTC) TentamenThank you for your note on my talk page refreshing my memory about edit-warring. I notice that you did not warn the other party PamD - was that deliberate or inadvertent? cheers Paul venter (talk) 21:04, 25 January 2014 (UTC)
Really? This is from your post on my page
I do not see your "clearly differing degrees of impropriety" but rather a clear case of prejudice. Paul venter (talk) 16:09, 26 January 2014 (UTC)
Your gratuitous lecture is noted, but you have consistently failed to explain your bias in issuing edit-warring tags. Paul venter (talk) 15:03, 27 January 2014 (UTC)
The edit-warring tag is intended for editors who are edit-warring - it doesn't ask who was right and who was wrong. Read this post with more care so that you can understand my concern, instead of rushing off half-cocked. Paul venter (talk) 09:56, 28 January 2014 (UTC)
Talk:Friendly Fire#Requested moveHello BD2412. This RM may be ready to close, and I'm scoping out the borderline votes. Are you supporting or just not opposing? What you wrote in the discussion was 'opposition withdrawn'. Thanks, EdJohnston (talk) 03:16, 26 January 2014 (UTC)
Talk:Daniel Robbins (computer programmer)I closed this move discussion as Moved. Since there are just two Daniel Robbins articles, do we use hatnotes instead of a DAB? If so, to which article should the Daniel Robbins redirect go? The move discussion did not conclude that either one was the primary topic. Thanks, EdJohnston (talk) 15:45, 27 January 2014 (UTC)
Leyte and broad-concept articlesHi BD2412. At Talk:Leyte_(island)#Requested_move you said "no disambiguation needed, as the main topics are related". However, there are several topics (pages), all related true, but the dab page serves as the easiest method to re-navigate to the desired Leyte page. So a disambiguation page is desired, for navigation purposes, even though this is not technically disambiguation? Am I confusing terminology here? Also, I think you like to sometimes promote "broad-concept articles" in favor of DAB pages. When you do, do you usually mean that the broad-concept article replaces the DAB page, in cases like Leyte where all topics are related? I understand the text and examples at the guideline, but I am not sure if the concept extends to cases like Leyte, where it is not really that the "concept" is broad, but there are multiple pages all closely associated with the same short title. --SmokeyJoe (talk) 05:55, 28 January 2014 (UTC)
GopherHey BD2412 I'm not normally one to question closes in move requests, but I'm quite baffled by your close at Talk:Gopher. As far as I can see there has not been one shred of evidence provided by any of the "support" votes that the animal article is a primary topic over the protocol, as per our policies and guidelines. The only actual numerical data provided was the page view stats, which clearly leaned in the opposite direction, while the only vaguely satisfactory explanation for why there might be primacy was the comment about long term notability; even that was not backed up by a single piece of evidence. Furthermore, I made a comment towards the bottom regarding the fact that effectively the animal is a pocket gopher not just a plain gopher, so really there's not even much of a disambiguation issue, but nobody answered that point at all. I know I voted to oppose, so perhaps I'm biased, but I don't see how you can have found a consensus to move here. Thanks — Amakuru (talk) 23:09, 28 January 2014 (UTC)
Ambassador Stuart HollidayBD2412, I beleive you may have edited my page on Ambassador Stuart Holliday and rejected it because of a copyright issue; however, the websites sited in fact took their information on the ambassador from the Meridian International Center's page on him (http://www.meridian.org/meridian/our-leadership/item/69-stuart-holliday) which was written by us and owned by us. I do not know how to prove this specifcally, just that we wrote the original information and therefore have the right to put it on the wikipedia page about him. Wondering if you might be able to help me or give me an avenue to pusue that would result in the publication of the article on the ambassador. thanks so much, Roberly2 (talk) 15:19, 31 January 2014 (UTC)roberly2 Your opinion?I'd be interested to know what you think of this. --R'n'B (call me Russ) 22:47, 31 January 2014 (UTC)
New move requestI wanted to let you know that I started a new move request at Talk:Moro insurgency in the Philippines#Requested Move (Again) as the current title is now inaccurate given the recent developments. Seeing you took part in the prevous move I thought to get your input. - Knowledgekid87 (talk) 01:05, 1 February 2014 (UTC) revertI noticed you reverted my edit on Wikipedia:Disambiguation pages with links/February 2014. Can you tell me what I was doing wrong? I thought items were supposed to be moved to the end of the "Done" section when they're finished, and unless I'm mistaken, the only links left from the main namespace to Phoenix are intended to link to the disambiguation page. Please let me know what I should do differently. Thank you. Mr. Granger (talk) 22:16, 1 February 2014 (UTC) Francis AlbarèdeHi! It seems you recently created an unreferenced biography of a living person: Francis Albarède. The community has decided that all new biographies of living persons must contain a reliable source that supports at least one statement made about the person in the article as per our verifiability policy. Please add references as soon as possible. Thanks! --LaraBot (talk) 00:10, 4 February 2014 (UTC) Coming up in February!Hello there! Our February WikiSalon is coming up on Sunday, February 23. Join us at our gathering of Wikipedia enthusiasts at the Kogod Courtyard of the National Portrait Gallery with an optional dinner after. As usual, all are welcome. Care to join us? Also, if you are available, there is an American Art Edit-a-thon being held at the Smithsonian American Art Museum with Professor Andrew Lih's COMM-535 class at American University on Tuesday, February 11 from 2 to 5 PM. Please RSVP on the linked page if you are interested. If you have any ideas or preferences for meetups, please let us know at Wikipedia talk:Meetup/DC. Thank you, and hope to see you at our upcoming events! Harej (talk) 18:41, 4 February 2014 (UTC) A cupcake for you!
Send Me On My WayHello. As a matter of courtesy, because you created the redirect for Send Me On My Way, I am letting you know I have written an article over the top of it.--Launchballer 15:07, 7 February 2014 (UTC) OK, if that floats your boatLooking at the note about dispute resolution at the top of the page, I am hereby offering to start a dispute with you, if you like, and you can take me to dispute resolution. Shall I call you some names, or send an abusive sock to visit? Regards, Bishonen | talk 22:14, 13 February 2014 (UTC). Talk:Emmett Brown#Requested moveCan you relist the discussion? You already voted, and the voting results were mixed, yet you closed it as "not moved"? --George Ho (talk) 05:48, 15 February 2014 (UTC) Hydraulic transmissionHi, I've had to fix most of your recent dabs of hydraulic transmission. You had altered most to Hydraulic drive system, but in railway applications, such systems are almost never used - except on the lightest of vehicles. On railways, the term "hydraulic transmission" refers to something completely different - a system of shafting including one or more torque converters. A better link would have been Hydrokinetic transmission. --Redrose64 (talk) 01:11, 16 February 2014 (UTC) Recent thanksWhile there's nothing the matter with that post, just thought I should say that the "thank" was unintended! In mobile wiki the "thank" button is much too large and too near the "back" on my phone. PamD 22:27, 18 February 2014 (UTC) If it would help...I could do the articles which obviously need disambiguation (some already have redlinks on some dab pages as I thought theyd'd be done by now or shortly.) That process could be basically done by end of next week barring interruptions. Carlossuarez46 (talk) 17:06, 19 February 2014 (UTC)
Nicely done!It's good to see those "repeat offenders" gone. It wouldn't have happened without you. SchreiberBike talk 20:19, 22 February 2014 (UTC) Re: High School DiplomaThat's a possibility. I was however envisioning that perhaps there could be much more information (I just started the US and Canada articles today) on the different diplomas offered regionally, possibly on state and federal standards and regulations governing each, and son on, which could merit two separate articles. --Shruti14 talk • sign 03:19, 27 February 2014 (UTC) Red starsIt looks like there will be no red stars on the March Disambiguation pages with links list, and it's largely your fault! :-) R'n'B (call me Russ) 16:53, 27 February 2014 (UTC) Aaron AllstonHey BD2412, anything you can add to Aaron Allston? :( BOZ (talk) 13:00, 28 February 2014 (UTC) |